08-08-2016, 01:23 PM
(07-08-2016, 04:16 PM)Koen Gh. wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.This is another indication to posit a Carolingian stage in the roundels imagery, since they copied from mosaics all around the mediterranean.
I can think of many possibilities for how these images wound up in the VMS. One thing I wonder though is if we need to posit that they were copied from mosaics, or if manuscripts of the time would have also contained similar imagery. At the very least I would imagine that whoever made these mosaics was working from a visual model of some kind.
I'm also becoming convinced, for a number of reasons, that some predecessor of the VMS must have already existed in classical times. So the question then becomes whether or not this imagery was already associated with it then, or whether it's some kind of later addition.
Quote:One weird thing is that the goat's beard wasn't copied. Also the neck is more slender. Maybe a female goat in the same style?
Maybe the changes were intentional, or maybe it's just degradation of the image over a number of generations of copying. I could imagine that it would be easy to mistake the beard for part of the tree, for instance.